Blaming President Donald Trump’s “disastrous economic policies,” Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed an executive order that directs state agencies to identify 4% in cuts to use as reserves in next year’s budget.

The executive order asks state agencies to, within 30 days, review their spending plans to identify cuts, including a reduction in spending; reserving 4% of general funds appropriations; identifying budget lines to be reduced, including a legislative transfer or program changes; and pausing non-essential purchases and operational expenditures, eliminating travel that is not essential and reviewing all potential hires.

Pritzker says cuts are needed because of the fallout from Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which included tax breaks for billionaires, cuts to the Supplemental

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